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    <p>I know this is old, but I just wanted to add my 2 cents. </p> <p>I would highly recommend using WCF; and use the WCF Service Library project over the Silverlight-enabled web service. They are both essentially the same, but the Silverlight-enabled web service changes the binding to basic instead of ws*. It also adds an asp.net compatibility mode attribute.</p> <hr> <ul> <li><p>WCF is <em>usually</em> faster: See "A Performance Comparison of Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) with Existing Distributed Communication Technologies" @ <a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb310550.aspx" rel="noreferrer">http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb310550.aspx</a></p></li> <li><p>WCF encapsulates asmx, wse, msmq, enterprise services, and remoting. </p></li> <li><p>WCF services can be included and run within iis, windows forms, etc.</p></li> <li><p>WCF isn't restricted to using HTTP, but with minimal configuration can also use tcp, named pipes etc.</p></li> <li><p>complex data types are easier to expose and serialize.</p></li> <li><p>WCF just scales really well. Plus, they can be used to incorporate workflows from WF.</p></li> </ul> <hr> <p>There's probably not a wrong technology to use, but it seems as if Microsoft is going to be moving forward with WCF. Plus, it's just so much easier to write one code base that can be exposed so many different ways with just a few configuration changes to the WCF service. </p> <p>I recommend not using the Silverlight-enabled web service, just because the programming structure is set up a little better with the WCF model, but this is probably a matter of opinion.</p>
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    1. CO-1: Scott, I'm downvoting because: 1) I don't see that this answer adds much to what was already there, and 2) You've got it backwards as far as using the Silverlight-enabled WCF service. Since he's using Silverlight, he needs to not use wsHttpBinding!
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    2. CONo problem. I thought my answer added authority on where one might find actual statistics on the performance of WCF since none of the other comments did. The SL-enabled wcf service and the wcf service are the same thing. The only difference is that when creating a SL-enabled service it automatically changes the binding to basichttpbinding and adds the ASP compatibility mode line. Both of which can be done in the wcf service. Unfortunatlely, the silverlight-enabled wcf service does not set itself up to use a interface as the contract which I refer to as the better programming structure.
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